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COMMON GOLD-CREST. 

 (Regulus vulgaris,) 



Ri. virescens, remigibus secundariis fxteriori margine^fiavis, medio 



albisj vertice luieo. 

 Greenish Gold-crest, with the exterior edges of the secondary 



quills yellow ; the middle white ; the crown yellow. 

 Regulus cristatus. Rat/. Syn» p. 79. a. 9. — Briss, Orn. 3. 579. 



17. 



Motacilla Regulus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 338. 48. — Lin. Faun. 

 Suec. 262.-—Gmei, Syst, Nat, 1. 995. 



Sylvia Regulus. Lath, Ind, Orn, 2, 548. 152. 



Roitelet, Foul, Souci. Buf, Hist, Nat, Ois, 5, 363. pL 10. 

 f, 2.--Buff. PI, Enl, 65\, S.-^Buf. Hist, Prov, 1. 509. 



Golden-crested Wren. Pen, Brit. Zool, 153. — Fen. Arct. Zool. 

 2. 321. — Will, Ang, p. 227 » — Edwards, pi, 254, 1- — Albin. 

 Birds, 1 . pi. 53. — Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 38. — Lath, Gen. Syn, 

 4. 508. 145. — Leuoin, Brit, Birds, 3. 112. — Wale, Syn, 2. 243. 

 — Don, Brit. Birds, 1. pi. 4. — Beuoick. Brit, Birds. 1. — Shaiu, 

 Nat, Miscpl. 165. — Mont. Orn. Diet, 2.— Mont, Sup, 



This elegant species is the smallest bird found 

 in Europe, measuring scarcely three inches and a 

 half in length, and the body, when stripped of its 

 feathers, but little more than an inch : its weight 

 is between seventy and eighty grains : its beak is 

 black : irides hazel : the crown of the head is 

 ornamented with a crest composed of a double 

 series of feathers arising from each side, and nearly 

 meeting at their points; the exterior are black, 

 the interior bright yellow; between which, on the 

 crown, the feathers are shorter, and of a fine deep 

 orange; the forehead, chin, and round the eyes, 



